TexasGal wrote:I spent some time in a hospital during training and nurses have to keep their wits about them to avoid making possibly fatal medication errors. I would not have wanted to be a patient there after those nurses were scared silly.
Just imagine the liability if one of them, startled by the gunman, ran a needle right through the target depth and did some real damage, or snipped into the patient while cutting off a bandage.
Considering it was in the ICU, a reflexive jerk at the wrong time could have ripped out all sorts of vital tubes and/or wires.
The geniuses here ran a baby-snatch drill, complete with simulated armed security response, (they don't have armed security, so they used a couple of off duty deputies, but out of uniform and using Airsoft guns) which ended up outside the west doors, without telling the local PD, which happens to be just across the intersection at the southwest corner of the hospital. That actually came fairly close to getting messy when the police responded to the non-uniformed guy holding a woman with a (fake) baby at (fake) gunpoint.
